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- THE PRESIDENT'S CLEAR VISION.

President Wilson in his recent New Jersey tour made it plain to his fellow citizens of the union that he is laboring under no delusions as to the political conditions which made the success of his party possible at the last election.

As one very practical leader or tne party put it into legal phrase, "The democratic party took judgment by default," and it is all to the credit of the wisdom of the president that he so fully and so keenly compre­hends the position of the administra­tion and the party.

If he can but impress his coun­selors and the administration mem­bers of congress the necessity for considering most carefully every im­portant measure, looking well at all times to the welfare of the people and the continuing of the prosperity of the country, he may be able to place his party once again in the majority of the popular vote of the country. . .

That sense of a critical political situation, that knowledge that he and his party won the victory of last November through the division or the opposition, which prompted the president to warn his past associates in New Jersey of danger if they did not serve the people faithfully and well, these should also warn in Washington and in every state in the union. ,,

Two years run rapidly in tne course of a nation, and when Novem­ber, 1914, arrives the country will pass upon the entire membership of the national house of representatives and probably upon one-third of the membership of the senate.

The result of that popular scrutiny •whether it be approval or disapprov­al, can be largely determined by executive action, by executive action, by executive advice, counsel, and support of measures conducive to the advancement of the interests of the great majority of the people.

The responsibility does not all lie with congress, or with members of the "cabinet, and as he so well evi­denced in his trip to New Jersey and in his addresses there, the president shirks neither the responsibilities of the private citizen, the party leader, nor those of the executive of a mighty nation. ,

This realization of the party s weakness and surrounding dangers should make for party safety, for party success.

"The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion—makes the thought start into instant action, and at once plans and performs, resolves and exe­cutes."—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Carl Schurz, whose monument has just been unveiled in New York, had a career of remarkable brilliance and interest. The story of his part in the German revolution of 1848, which collapsed so ingloriously, is so full of adventure that it might have preluded the life of a soldier of fortune.

But Sehurz had better stuff in him than that which makes the mere lover of excitement and battle. He loved liberty, order and progress. Fortune sent him to America follow­ing his escape from Germany and he rapidly gained a place of influence among the German people of this country. Through his eloquence as a writer and speaker he came to lead the German-Americans in the" per­iod preceding the civil war and rap­idly attained national distinction. He was a friend and adviser of Lincoln; attained the rank of Major General in the army, served as minister to Spain in the civil war period and be­came senator from Missouri.

At various time lie was editor of newspapers in St. Louis, Milwaukee, Detroit and New York. He served in the cabinet under President Hayes, and as the problems of the war period disappeared he launched into the battle against corruption in politics with ail the fervor of the idealist and enthusiast that he was.

He was not the kind of a patriot who fights corruption in the party to which he does not belong. Republi-

1 bargainers in patronage, privi­lege and pelf hated him. Passing from the stage of active politics he •ame to a period of serene old age n which he summed up the events

of his life in an autobiography which has the importance of history and the interest of romance. His fiery impatience of wrong and his ideal­ism may have limited the influence of Carl Schurz as a statesman, but no compromise with evil ever sullied his name.—St. Louis Republic.

A TARIFF NURSED INVALID.

The Underwood bill proposes to reduce existing sugar duties 25 per cent, and to make sugar free May 1, 1916.

Two kinds of sugar are made in this country: the cane sugar of Lou­isiana and the beet sugar of several western and northern states.

Beet sugar is a natural product of the United States. We have the soil; we have the sunshine; we have the skill. No other ingredients are nec-esssary to produce beet sugar. Whether the tariff wind blows high or low it will continue to be made in these United States.

Cane sugar is not a natural pro duct of that part of North America lying above the Gulf of Mexico. Ow ing to the shortness of the Louisiana season and the coldness of the soil, as compared with those regions where cane is indigenous, but one-third as much sugar may be produc­ed from an acre of ground as in the West Indies. There cane is planted once in eight years, in Louisiana once in three years. the cane sugar business is—and has been for a century—a tariff-nursed invalid. It will never be any better, for the American climate 'is the wrong one for this particular sick man to get well in.

Now the democracy holds that there is no reason why every break­fast table, dinner table and supper table in the country should be taxed simply to enable a few hundred sug­ar planters to follow a business that their lands are not adapted to. And It proposes to put a stop to this monstrous exercise of privilege. But in view of the investment of capital in the business and the time ele­ment involved in any industrial re­organization the Underwood bill makes a 25 per cent reduction only in the sugar tax and provides for free sugar after May. 1, 1916—three years hence.

The party position on the sugar question needs no champion, it hard­ly needs discussion. Its best defense is a simple statement of the bare facts concerning the industry and the provisions of the pending bill.— St. Louis Republic.

CERTIFICATES OF CHARACTER.

Guthrie county men dragged a highway across the county in an hour and a half the other day. The dragging bee had been arranged for and was pulled off on schedule. It reminds of a story told by Jim Fisk, one of the earlier magnates and mil­lionaires. He was the son a shrewd old New England farmer. One day the old man told little Jim that if he would clean the stables well he would pay him a gold dollar for the service. Jim, with the golden award in sight tugged and strained and finished the stable on time. His father gave him the dollar. Then he said: "James, if you can clean the stables for one day for a dollar you can clean them every day as a duty." And thereafter James cleaned the stables.

If Guthrie county, and other coun­ties, can drag the principal highways of the county in an hour and a half with a hurrah and to show what can be done they can drag the principal roads after a rain as a duty. An ar­rangement so successful as this should suggest a" permanent system. The gratification with which those road draggers turned to survey their completed work ought to teach them that a good road is a joy forever. If it is worth making as an object les­son it is worth maintaining for ev­ery day use.

The roads should be dragged. Mon­ey spent for that purpose is well spent. If it can't be done for 50 cents a mile it should be done any­way.

The farmer cannot afford to main­tain a fine home on a bad road. The two do not jibe. They are in­congruous. The town can not afford to have highway travel say that "the roads are pretty well taken care of until inside the city limits." The cheapest thing our taxes buy is road dragging. We get the most for our money there.

Let's drag the roads. Until the time arrives when we shall make roads that do not need dragging to be good roads, let's drag the roads we have. Well dragged roads are certificates of character to the neigh­borhoods through which they pass and the towns to which they lead. And they get us somewhere.—Mar-shalltown Times-Republican.

"There are so many republican "leaders" trying to reorganize the party that it may afford 'another sea­son of hope for the democrats," says the Cedar Rapids Republican. "In .our humble opinion, leaders are not going to reorganize the party, but events may do the work. If things do not work out right, there will be a clarion cry for the g. o. p.—please note that we are now using small letters, instead of capitals, and we sprinkle them with ashes at the same time."

The democrats are still in control at Washington and the crops contin­ue to improve upon almost record high conditions. This is hard to ex­plain. It would seem as though the powers of the earth and air had tak­en advantage of republican disunion to break away and enjoy a little in­dependence.

Some of our farmers are nervous about the free wool and the free sugar that the congress is going to give us. Some fellows pick such peculiar things to get scared about-These gentlemen do not raise sheep. They do not raise sugar. They buy both, and are stirred up for fear wool and sugar will get too cheap if the tariff is removed from those articles. In other words they are alarmed over the prospect of cheap­er prices on things that they buy but do not sell.—Maysville Herald.

For the first time since the dedi-ation of the Soldiers' National Ceme­tery, in 1863, the Memorial Day ad­dress at Gettysburg this year will be delivered by a southerner. A pre­cedent which it is satisfactory to have established, even though belat­ed.

Newspapers of State Do Not TsWe Kindly to the Deal.

Williamsburg Journal - Tribune: Des Moines real estate sharks "put one over" on the feeble-minded chil­dren selected to make laws for a whole state.

Waterloo Times-Tribune: Maybe one reason why the Iowa legislature did not pass a loan shark law is be­cause the state might need the ser­vices of the loan shark before it closes that $2,000,000 real estate deal. „ .

The Cedar Rapids Republican sug­gests that before Gov. Clarke author­izes the work of enlarging the capi-tol grounds to go on he ought at least to be able to give the assurance to the taxpayers of the state that the expenditures will stop with the $2,000,000 specified.

J. W. Jarnagin in Montezuma Re­public: Just how the bill happened to get through with so little opposi­tion is something of a puzzle, but the presumption is that the lack of agitation is responsible. If the Des Moines papers had boosted for the improvement it would probably have been defeated because it would have stirred up the state and petitions ga­lore would have been sent in in oppo­sition to the plan. But as it was the system was worked quietly and no particular opposition developed.

The Davenport Times contends that the legislature was not busi­nesslike in arranging the enlarge­ment of the capitol grounds—that a private corporation would have in­sisted on getting options in black and white at reasonable figures be­fore announcing whether purchases were to be made or not. "When $2,-000,000 is appropriated for the pur­pose," the Times continues, "and no agreed price has been fixed for the propertv to be purchased, what will be the result? The question needs no answer. It is apparent."

Ackley World: Possibly Represen­tative Huff, of Hardin, may be in­clined to "point with pride" to the fact that he voted for the two to sev­en millions dollar expenditure for "capitol grounds beautification." Not many of the representatives are doing so; the bill was rushed through as an elevnth-hour measure, the vic-iousness of which was understood by the promoters if not by the argus-eyed watch dogs of the state's treas­ury. There's a good fight ahead and a most glorious opportunity for the retirement of some of the representa­tives who just fall into line for reg­ularity's sake. The gentleman from Hardin appears to be in this class.

Denison Bulletin: Since the leg­islature adjourned and people have come to think more about what was done, the big deal whereby two million dollars was appropriated for the purchase of about sixteen blocks of business houses and residences in the city of Des Moines to be used for extended grounds for the state capitol is more and more puzzling. All are wondering how the boosters slipped the big deal through when half the amount of land would have been fully as good for the purpose and all that the state will ever need. It is said that the cost will in the end reach to at least seven million dol

Albia News: The extravagant ex­penditure of money for beautifying the state capitol grounds may be pleasing to the sight, but the same expenditure on permanent road building would be far more profit­able and more easily paid. And the worst of it is, the $2,000,000 thus appropriated is probably only a start­er, for when the larger and prettier grounds are provided the next cry will be that the state house is too small and not sufficiently imposing and then a call for abeut $10,000,-000 more will be made for a new one. Then we will have a repetition of the Pennsylvania graft troubles. What's the use?

Keosauqua Republican: The Des Moines papers, now that the foolish and extravagant stunt of appropriat ing two million dollars, and then some, of the tax-payers' money to buy a 56-acre addition to the capitol largely for a pleasure resort for the people of that city has been pulled oft, are arguing that it will not hurt the political office-holding future of the members of the legislature who voted the thing, through. Could the editors of the Des Moines papers hear the remarks made in almost every locality in southeastern Iowa,, which- is probably indicative of the sentiment over the state, they would have their understandings opened to the fact that when the time comes there will be a very scant chance for many of these gentlemen being re­turned as members of the next gen­eral assembly. It might just as well be put down as a matter of fact now that the democratic managers will make this two million dollar flower garden purchase the principal issue against the republican state adminis­tration in the next campaign, even though it is true a number of demo­crats in both houses of the legisla­ture voted for the appropriation. Gov. Clarke is bound to come in as the main target of the enemies' fire, and the lower house next. We don't see why a little common political reason was not used by the republi can leaders at Des Moines when they determined on pushing for the ap­propriation. Had the matter been submitted to the people, as is a new public county building proposition or land purchase of over $5,000, no hurt to the republican state and leg­islative administration would have resulted.

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Manufacturers who threaten to re­duce wages if the Underwood bill is passed reBent the government's statement that such reductions will be investigated. Uncle Sam, how­ever, will not wield the big stick ex­cept where the special interests, use the same weapon. :'i v

The Iowa Advertise says "fed Dunn would have stopped that capi­tol improvement if he had been elect-

What chance has a republican pol­itician to get a post office when he has to pass a civil-service examina­tion? The enormity of Burleson's ruling can be fully appreciated only by a man who is a republican and a fourth class postmaster. .ft

Only four of the thirteen demO' crats who were to vote against the tariff bill stood up at last, and three of these are never anything bat re­publicans when sugar is concerned.

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